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"...It’s Christmas time of year here in the United States which means Americans will be spending billions of dollars on toys. One of the ugliest aspects of globalization is that the plastic playthings Americans buy for their children are often made by third world children working in sweatshop conditions. Over 50 percent of all toys sold by Wal-Mart, Mattel, Hasbro, Disney and Toys R Us are made In China. “Made in China” often means made by children working in unsafe environments for exploitative wages. During the "busy season" in China, three million toy workers— mostly young women— will be locked inside 2,800 factories. They will be forced to work 15 hours a day, seven days a week, thirty days a month, handling toxic chemicals with their bare hands, while they are paid wages as low as 12 cents an hour making toys for our holiday season..."
http://www.mediamouse.org/corporate/christmas_toys_and_child_labor.php
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http://www.buyhard.fsnet.co.uk/news119.htm
http://www.sweatshopwatch.org/swatch/industry/
http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/sweatshops/china/501.html
http://www.monitor.net/monitor/sweatshop/ss-intro.html
http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/2000/12/xmas/
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dipperwell
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please note the unhealthy correlation between the spirit of christmas and the american dream
who lacks the spirit of christmas? the people who get in the way of consumerism, the people who don't show they care with diamonds (scrooge, the grinch, etc)
christmas was never supposed to be about "giving and receiving" (pretty words that just mean buying and selling presents)
in fact, christmas isn't about anything and has no spirit
it really is just a concoction and that delightful christmassy feeling you get is conditioned
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sarah
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sad happy me. birth of more hope for meaning and life but also difficulty in finding the meaning to live. thus paradox of life confronts yet again. love is the best answer and the mystical i am, yet...
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sarahp
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sad happy me. birth of more hope for meaning and life but also difficulty in finding the meaning to live. thus paradox of life confronts yet again. love is the best answer and the mystical i am, yet...
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